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A New Deal for Quilts explores how, in response to the Great Depression in the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration used quilts to inspire perseverance and thriftiness among Americans during dire conditions, encouraging them to create quilts both individually and collectively in response to unemployment, displacement, and recovery efforts.

Produktbeschreibung
A New Deal for Quilts explores how, in response to the Great Depression in the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration used quilts to inspire perseverance and thriftiness among Americans during dire conditions, encouraging them to create quilts both individually and collectively in response to unemployment, displacement, and recovery efforts.
Autorenporträt
Janneken Smucker is a professor of history at West Chester University specializing in digital history and material culture. She is the author of Amish Quilts: Crafting an American Icon. Smucker lectures and writes about quilts for popular and academic audiences and hosts Running Stitch: A QSOS Podcast, drawing on oral histories with quiltmakers.